Bangkok: Chances of a negotiated settlement of Thailand's two-month political standoff look bleak after the prime minister said he would no longer offer anti-government protesters a compromise, including an early election.
A government spokesman says Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has issued instructions for quickly dealing with the so-called Red Shirt demonstrators who are occupying a central commercial district in Bangkok to press their demands.
Asked whether this implied a new crackdown by security forces, spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn told The Associated Press late Tuesday: "The prime minister has already handed out some guidelines. Tomorrow they will be implemented."
Abhisit last week told the Red Shirts he was willing to hold new polls in November, more than a year before the end of his government's term.
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